Team Resolute awarded £1.6bn to deliver Royal Navy support ships

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Team Resolute, a consortium made up of BMT, Harland & Wolff and Navantia UK, has been awarded £1.6bn to deliver three Fleet Solid Support ships for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA).

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Work on the Fleet Solid Support ships contract is predicted to create 1,200 UK shipyard jobs, hundreds of graduate and apprentice opportunities, and an expected 800 further jobs across the UK supply chain.

For its part, Harland & Wolff in Belfast is investing around £100m into UK shipyards, including £77m of infrastructure at the company’s Belfast and Appledore shipyards, and a further £21m in skills and technology transfer from Navantia UK.

With around 900 jobs alone to be created at Harland & Wolff’s Belfast site, the contract is a boost for Northern Ireland, which sees naval shipbuilding brought back to Belfast.

The majority of the blocks and modules for the ships will be constructed at Harland & Wolff’s facilities in Belfast and Appledore, following the entirely British crafted design by the Bath-based company BMT. Build work will also take place at Navantia’s shipyard in Cadiz in Spain, with the final assembly for all three 216m long vessels to be completed at Harland & Wolff’s Belfast yard.

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